You left out silicon valley, big energy (inc. Koch bros), National Association of Manufacturers and other important Wall Street forces that have been integrated into the Deep State.
You lost me there. Yeah, this would be really cool in a comic book, but it's a failed attempt to try to put some kind of unified, sinister structure on a phenomenon that doesn't have any set structure. The Deep State is versatile and changes configuration with each power shift. New players enter and leave constantly. If anything, the Deep State is, like everything else in government, a bunch of conflicting special interests (all statists) that form and dissolve coalitions as conditions change. Some of the Deep State was against Obama, some (much of it the same) is against trump. Judge actually wrote about their dissatisfaction with Hillary Clinton too -
http://www.judgenap.com/post/lessons-from-the-deep-state
trump's Treasury Secretary is Skull and Bones Goldman Sachs. Sachs has infiltrated every corner of his administration. Big oil (the major force responsible for the CIA Mossadeq operation, the grand overture to the CIA's epic reign) now heads the State Department. THESE WERE TRUMP'S PICKS!!!
H.E. Panqui is correct.
The Deep State as you describe it does not exist. It's much bigger and much less organized than that. Judge's definition is much broader than yours and doesn't presume a Hydra-like monolith - "the unseen government within the government that does not change with elections." Yes, elements of it will try to manipulate trump, and I leave open the (slight) possibility that some elements of the Deep State are uncomfortable with his supposedly independent origins. And since he took both sides of every single issue, he said something to piss everybody off at some point. But can a guy who gave SO MUCH MONEY exclusively to the the political darlings of the Deep State (neocons like McCain, McConnell and the worst coterie of progressives) really be an outsider?
Judge thinks Flynn was booted by the Deep State. Well, probably partly. But regardless, he was ridiculously sloppy for somebody who calls himself a spy.
trump plays into the hands of the Deep State to a greater extent than even Obama did. trump is an unqualified success to the MIC at large. His hyper-interventionist approach to the Middle East and his obsession with controlling their oil is the bee's knees. So far, he seems to have caused the CIA to throw a couple minor sparks. But don't forget, trump's first choice for CIA director was Woolsey, Bill Clinton's top man at the CIA. And the CIA was a major force in Clinton's victory in 1992.
H. E. Panqui is also correct that the nastiest elements of the Deep State have to have the Federal Reserve at full operating capacity. The Federal Reserve is absolutely the linchpin of the Deep State. With trump's brazen and forceful installation of big Fed beneficiaries and proxies throughout the Executive Branch, it's cinched up.
